Route improvements are coming to Laravel 5.4

As Laravel 5.4 development continues, two new improvements are coming to your routes, better route caching for large applications and fluently registering routes.

Route Caching Improvements

The route caching layer contains improvements that will allow route matching on very large applications to see a significant improvement. In this context very large is applications with more than one thousand routes defined.

Fluent Registering Routes

In the past, if you wanted to define a named route or a middleware you would do it like this at the end of the closure: